Meanings
alternative siphunculate
- not comparablebiologyHaving a siphuncle.
Cephalopods may have very various forms , and may even be chambered and siphunculated; but , in this case , the chamber nearest the mouth of the shell is small , and incapable of lodging the viscera
1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals
Origin
From Latin sīphunculus + -ated.
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